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Russian Cyberspies Targeted MH17 Crash Investigation (trendmicro.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the like-james-bond-only-lazy dept.

itwbennett writes: Security researchers from Trend Micro have found evidence that the Pawn Storm cyberespionage group set up rogue VPN and SFTP servers to target Dutch Safety Board employees before and after the report on the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was finalized. It is likely that the rogue servers were set up with the goal of phishing login credentials from people involved in the MH17 crash investigation in order to obtain access to confidential information, the researchers said.

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  1. Linked to the Russians, you say? by rmdingler · · Score: 1, Troll
    So. Russia has a State-sponsored Cyber Division that uses its skills to further the needs of the Russian power brokers.

    Maybe the US and Europe should look into developing a program like that.

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  2. Re:Who is surprised? by William+Baric · · Score: -1, Troll

    It was not Russia who shot down MH17, it was rebels from Ukraine which were armed by Russia. If you count that as Russia, than considering the US have armed rebels pretty much everywhere around the world, I'm pretty sure a good number of the commercial airplanes which were shot down could be attributed to the US.

    I'd also like to remind you that the US also directly shot a commercial airplane (Iran air flight 655), killing 290 civilians.

    Finally, Ukraine also shot a Russian commercial aircraft in 2001.

    And by the way, the US certainly played an important role in the current Ukrainian situation. The ones who are in power right now in Ukraine had support from the US and Europe. It's even surprising Russia didn't get directly involved in this. Imagine if Russia was supporting a successful coup in Mexico. I'm pretty sure the US would invade Mexico immediately.